This book uses network ideas to explore how the sea connected communities across the ancient Mediterranean. We look at the complexity of cultural interaction, and the diverse modes of maritime mobility through which people and objects moved. It will be of interest to Mediterranean specialists, ancient historians, and maritime archaeologists.

With a focus on the underwater context of sculptures retrieved from beneath the sea, this volume examines where, when, why and how sculptures were transported on the Mediterranean Sea during Classical Antiquity through the lenses of both maritime and classical archaeology.

These studies on the history, art, religions, and literature of Egypt and the ancient Near East include discussions of previously unpublished archaeological excavations and ancient inscriptions. Some essays engage specific literary texts; others are comparative, interpreting the finds, art, and inscriptions, from a variety of ancient societies.

An overview of archaeology, from the history of the discipline to the problems and issues that face archaeologists today. Includes an introduction to archaeology, and archaeology of the regions of the world, their history, and their sites.

The fifteen papers in this volume cover a wide range of centre-periphery related studies, from the archaeology and history of the period to investigations into the intellectual millieux and religious thoughts and their contexts. Contributors include: L Hannestad (Greeks and Celts: The creation of a myth); F Kaul (The Gundestrup cauldron); B Cunliffe (Iberia and the Mediterranean); K Randsborg (Greek peripheries and barbarian centres); J E Skydsgaard (The Greeks in southern Russia); V Gabrielsen (Rhodes and Rome after the Third Macedonian War); S Alcock (Surveying the peripheries of the Hellenistic world); T Bekker-Nielsen (Centres and road networks in Cyprus); I Nielsen (Italic palaces); A Invernizzi (Centre and periphery in Seleucid Asia); G Shipley (World-systems analysis and the Hellenistic' world); P Bilde (Jesus and Paul and religious innovation).

This is a collection of papers in honour of Prof. V. N. Misra, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, and in celebration of a career in Indian archaeology spanning nearly half a century. All the papers included are based on the Ph.D. dissertations of the contributors, divided into two parts - part one covers the basics and theory of the thesis, while part two looks at changes and improvements that the author would have made if he had been carrying out the same research today. The 17 papers cover the period from the Palaeolithic to the early historic age in India, with one on the early historic period in Bangladesh (Rahman). They cover a range of regions, cultural periods and disciplines; including prehistory, protohistory, and early historic, with one paper on archaeozoology and one on ethnoarchaeology (Thomas and Ansari).